Coping with a B0rken Husband · 3:33pm May 6th, 2018
As I described in my last post, my husband spent the last week in the hospital. He's been home for a couple days, and while he's not able to do much for himself, I'm still infinitely grateful that he's home.
But Witchy, I imagine you (my dear readers) saying, taking care of someone with a physical handicap seems a lot more stressful than simply spending a week without him around. For someone else, that might be true even... For me, however, the week without him was far worse than anything I can imagine coming up with him at home.
I've been living with my husband for the last three years. During that time, we've developed fair-ish distribution of household duties. Imagine for a moment that you don't deal well with your routine changing suddenly. Such an upset causes severe anxiety, mood swings and outright panic in you. Now add in having all the chores/tasks/etc that are customarily done by your partner... suddenly fall on you.
That is why the week without my husband was far worse than anything his recovery will throw at me. Because for the last two nights, I've slept better than I did the entire week, even if my husband's snoring wakes me on occasion. I'm no longer panicking over forgetting to do something necessary at the apartment, nor am I constantly fatigued from poor sleep that I didn't get enough of.
A fall of approximately fifteen feet could have easily killed him and our niece, especially given that my husband kinda leaped away/pushed off from the deck so he wouldn't land on our niece. He pretty much landed face first, and how he managed to only dislocate his hip and fracture his pelvis? And that Lore was merely shaken up and limping for a few days? It's a work of Divine Providence that I can never properly express in words my gratitude for.
So when he asks me for a glass of water, or something from the fridge... I'm just glad he's around to ask that of me. I know he feels bad for needing so much help, especially with the less pleasant things such as various bodily functions that he can't necessarily tend to solo right now... However, even with him needing all that help, he's helping me get through this trial just by being here.
All that said, I'm now off to Jinxy's birthday BBQ. Hubby cannot attend as he's not able to handle that long of a car ride right now, but Jinxy's already promised to send me home with some BBQ for Hubby.
Hope he gets better soon.
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Thanks. He’s recovering well so far!